One of the music guys was called Nick Angel
Oh! I missed that.
Jayne: Here's a little concept I been workin' on. Why don't we shoot her first? Wash: It is her turn.
'Serenity'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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Jessica - May 26, 2007 3:02:25 pm PDT #8741 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Scrappy - May 26, 2007 3:20:11 pm PDT #8742 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Saw Bug. felt a little too much like a play in the last half-hour, but other than that it worked very well. Ashley Judd is fabulous. Our friend, Mike Shannon, kicks ass, just as he did in the play. A big surprise to me was Harry Connick Jr. Not only is he Mr. Buff Workoutlington, he is REALLY impressive and scary and believable.
I am sorry that they are marketing this as a horror film instead of a very black comedy'psychological thriller. It's supposed to be disquieting and also sometimes very funny. There were some people in our audience who seemed to be laughing AT moments rather than with them, if you know what I mean. I don't think they realized the writer emant them to laugh, which the rest of us did.
Still, worth a visit.
Laga - May 26, 2007 4:09:47 pm PDT #8743 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I can't help wondering if The Vulture entry was the work of a Buffista: Spider-Man 4 Villain contest.
DebetEsse - May 26, 2007 4:51:38 pm PDT #8744 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Isn't it funny how often you can tell that the movie was adapted from a play? Something about the dialogue
Sean K - May 27, 2007 7:12:44 am PDT #8745 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
We talk so much more in theater.
bon bon - May 27, 2007 7:15:18 am PDT #8746 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Well, in a play you have to establish everything through dialogue, and it shows when you're ignoring half of the movie's medium-- no action sequences, no location-- nothing visual does any work when the play is adapted to the movie format.
§ ita § - May 27, 2007 7:57:11 am PDT #8747 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
nothing visual does any work when the play is adapted to the movie format.
I would like to think nothing visual does any work when the play is poorly adapted to the movie format.
For some reason I can swear I can hear it in the delivery of the lines, which makes no sense, especially if it's not the stage actors reprising their roles. The most egregious I can think of was Jeffrey and the least-but-still-bothersome was Six Degrees of Separation. I know there's at least one where I was thoroughly impressed, but I can't remember which. Oh, and for sure others I never knew were adaptations in the first place, so I can't cite them for not bothering me.
Jessica - May 27, 2007 8:31:16 am PDT #8748 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I thought History Boys adapted to the screen very well. There were significant changes made to the script, but they also made sure to use locations as film locations and not shoot it as if they were still working with a proscenium.
Scrappy - May 27, 2007 8:41:56 am PDT #8749 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Bug used location and imagery very cinematically, so mad props to Friedkin. Some of the words still felt a but stagy, but not enough to make me dislike it.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 27, 2007 9:09:11 am PDT #8750 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Closer struck me as very well adapted to its new medium, though still relentlessly talky.